[Webcomic] PVP Discussion
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Oh, what I meant to add to my post was WW is a super nice guy.
I... actually liked the joke in today's strip. 
Well, it doesn't hold a candle to that cat barf one from a few days ago, eh? Eh?I... actually liked the joke in today's strip.
--Patrick
Dave
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I disagree, but oh well.I... actually liked the joke in today's strip.
I know I'm the only reader of the thing, but I keep hoping at least someone will finish the storyline. I mean, it looks like they've just forgotten to update since January.
Same here. Haven't visited PA in years...
*goes to look at comic...the hair can't be that bad, right?*
I... had no idea it was possible for an artist's skills to get worse.
...are they compensating for going bald themselves?
GasBandit
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"Interesting" in the way someone describes the taste of something when they don't want to hurt the cook's feelings
Yes, but not only that. I find Guernica a very interesting, deep, touching piece of art, but I wouldn't necessarily call it pretty or nice to look at."Interesting" in the way someone describes the taste of something when they don't want to hurt the cook's feelings
Anyway, his skill definitely hasn't decreased, as you can see in plenty of his other work....But I really don't care for the style he uses for PA these days.
Honestly I feel both Gabe and Tycho have gone legitimately insane. I mean, ignoring the art, have to seen the insanity that has been Tychos writing in the last few years?
This is what he write talking about Voltron on Netflix. It sometimes bleeds into his comic dialogue too. Sometimes I have to read it three times to try and figure out what he is trying to mean.
GasBandit
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I dunno, it made sense to me. He's always been heavy on the purple prose, and admittedly a lot of his emphatic narrative only makes sense to those who have experienced what he has experienced. But remember the deep crows? And what Tycho said to Gabe when Gabe started to talk about 40k "ripping off warcraft?"
I understand it's his "thing" but come on now. It's like he is the love child of HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe that took a job on a website after learning Bond villains didn't exist as a career.
Combined with the crazy squiggles that Gabe now draws, it just oozes insanity.
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GasBandit
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That's a pretty good description of his writing, yeah. I guess it says something about me that it usually makes perfect sense to me
He always had a little bit of brevity in his prose, but I can't be the only one that has noticed an increase in the... unusualness. I mean look at that first sentence above and the first in some of his older posts.
If that last one was written by Tycho today, it would probably say...
"You could say the Nin-ten-do has transformed, like a callous eldritch butterfly, into the Nin-ten-DON'T. Now we, the vessels that once fueled it's child-friendly yet nightmareish power, sit silent in disappointing contemplance."
GasBandit
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Hah, good stuff.
I don't know about that...
To me it seems more like their success has allowed them to indulge way too much in their eccentricities like they couldn't before.
Tycho/Jerry has always loved flowery language. And your can say is getting worse, but I mean, Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness was a thing. If anything, I'd say their own personal lives are kind of coming down to earth since they have families and kids, so they are trying too hard on their PA personas. If you watch things like their D&D games, they come across as pretty normal geeks.
HOO-boy is this current story arc hammy. Not the worst thing he's done, but I DO feel uncomfortable reading it, no lie.
Kinda surprised you guys are still reading. I forgot this thread even existed until I saw it as the most recently replied-to thread for Media.
Its kinda gone the route of "Okay to pretty good" newspaper comics, with a slight edge. A lot better than his darker periods, that's for sure.
I never bothered to stop Watching the thread since I've posted in it here and there, so whenever someone dredges it up from the bottom of the first page I'm reminded PvP is still a thing.
Granted, I still haven't checked the actual site in a year or so, but I'm still reminded it's out there, limping along in the shadow of the strips it once walked alongside.
Eh, it's more or less "newspaper comic" level and been there for quite a while. I wouldn't say PA does all that much better these days, for example. Or CAD.
PA doesn't really need to at this point, with the conventions and other things the guys have a hand in now. They managed to build a pretty nice thing out of a comic strip. CAD's probably fallen about where PvP is, partially due to the creator being kind of a giant baby like Kurtz tended to be (how either of them act now I couldn't say).